Bike cops moved to block access to the I-395 intersection as the march passed it, but this was not the target. MPD itself was the target. Marchers called out MPD for focussing on protecting property and the rich, for being the shock troops of gentrification. Rich condo developers selling to suit and tie white gentrifiers perfer to have zero Black or Brown faces where their fancy new towers are going up. As other speakers recounted,storming unhoused encampments and shooting people on the street for things like sleeping in cars are both part of the same "clean them up so the condos can come" agenda.

Killer cops have gone to prison before, just ask Derek Chauvin, the murderous Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd with a knee in his neck. Now that murderer gets to stare at the same steel bars, the same steel toilet and sink, the same kind of ugly cell as many of his other victims. Few cops figure having to sleep in the "iron bar hotel" and use the toilet with zero privacy for the next decade or more will be part of the price for killing someone in cold blood. If they want out, they should support prison abolition and leave last after everyone else is out.

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